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the foreign veterinary works and periodicals. This extensive 
acquaintance with the characters of disease as modified by soil, and 
climate, and food ; and the various results of different systems of 
treatment, would give them more enlarged and correct notions of the 
practice of their profession ; and would distinguish them from the 
groom, the cowleech, and the uneducated pretender — a class of men 
who have had their day, and should give place to those who are 
better able to uphold the character of the profession, and to work 
out all the noble purposes which our art is capable of effecting. 
By thus conducting their studies, they would become creditable and 
useful practitioners in their native country, or in any part of the 
world in which their future destiny might be cast.” 
The Editor would be happy to be the medium of forwarding 
from any of Professor Dick’s pupils now settled in the south, or 
from any of his well-wishers, contributions towards this contem- 
plated honorary presentation. 
In the next number the Editor will probably be enabled to give 
some account — may it be a satisfactory and honourable one ! — of 
the negotiation between the English Agricultural Society and 
the Governors of the English Veterinary College. 
A practice has been somewhat increasing, of soliciting the 
opinion of the Editor, in the pages of The Veterinarian, on 
cases that have occurred in private practice. So far as he can 
be useful, or any hint of so humble an individual as himself can be 
of service, he will be ever at the command of his friends : but it 
should be recollected that this was not the original purpose of The 
Veterinarian, nor should it be the frequent practice of him who 
conducts it. 
The object of this periodical is the recording of new, or rare, or 
valuable facts — the illustration of the grand principles of our pro- 
fession, and that, occasionally, by free yet friendly discussion — and, 
most of all, the encouraging of each other in maintaining the honour 
of our profession, and contributing to and still more accelerating 
the rapid progress which it has recently made. 
Nevertheless in the way of private communication, or other- 
wise if there should be occasion, and that being left to his own 
